DECADE: AUTOPORTRAIT 1962 (72 in.), 1977

“I think 1962 was the last year that Jack Kennedy lived, so that usually Jack refers to the president. However, if we want to keep consistent, in ’52 I met someone named Jack Curtis, who became an important friend in my life, and so it’s a dual, a 2 celebration you see…Obviously now I am celebrating New York, and the Battery. Again, Coenties Slip was just a few blocks away from the Battery, and then that’s it. These are just very brief comments on my life…Well it was, shall we say, a happy year. ’62, remember, was the year of my first one man show in New York.”